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Outlook 2024: How will digital ecosystems develop?
Monetary and financial institutions have been pinning their hopes on a digital overhaul for several years. How distant the outcome depends very much on who you ask, but the form of our new digital lives is slowly beginning to take shape. Central banks are, almost without exception, conducting research into developing their own digital currencies. The proofs-of-concept have largely shown that at least some form of central bank digital currency is technically deliverable. However, several difficult questions remain to be answered. Some of these are technical, such as offline payments and whether they constitute ... (full story)